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How can some people justify coming into local coffee shops and taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi (sometimes for several hours) without buying anything? Most of these places are local businesses trying to survive in a tough economy. Give them a break.

Also, I believe that bringing in food from outside into any restaurant or coffee shop is a health code violation. The owners, managers, and employees should enforce this.

For the same reasons people enter the country illegally or by TVs and iPhones instead of health insurance coverage.

People are self interested. This is why socialism and communism don't work. You eventually run out of other people's money.

Free wifi without a purchase at a coffee shop is like socialism. It feels good but doesn't work.

It's also why capitalism DOES work and has lifted more people out of poverty and despair than any other form of economics ever.

The problem with capitalism is that it doesn't make lib-dem idealists like you feel good about yourself - which is why you keep voting for programs to spend other people's money and regulate everyone's behavior.